COROLLA, N.C. — Tuesday marked the first day of school for the Water's Edge Village School (WVES), and it's also a day that has been 14 years in the making.

"This has been a long time coming. We are all so excited to have made it to this day," said Sylvia Wolff, director of the school.

A brand-new, nearly 4,000-square-foot school is what the students walked into on Tuesday morning after more than a decade inside a schoolhouse that was not even 1,000 square feet.

School leaders have wanted to provide space and expanded education to their students from day one in 2012.

"We want people to be able to access the education in the way that we do it. Which is project-based learning, hands-on, kids outside, low student-to-teacher ratios, and just whole child environment, and we're there. So now

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